Churn



(No Model.) 2 Sheets Sheet 1. w G. W. HINMAN.

UHURN.

No. 333,629. Patented Jan. 5, 1886.

2 Sheets-Sheet 2.

(No Model.)

G. W. HINMAN.

GHURN.

Patented Jan. 5,1886.

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UNITED STATES PATENT TOEEICE.

GEORGE WV. HINMAN, OF PADUOAH, KENTUCKY.

CHURN.

SPECIFICATION forming-part of Letters Patent No. 333,629. dated January 5,1886.

Application filed July 19, 1884. Serial No. 138,220. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE W. HINMAN, a cltizen of the United States, residing at Paducah, in the county of McCracken and State of Kentucky, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ohurns; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Thisinvention relates, chiefly, to improvements in churn-bodies, and its principal obect is to obtain a suitable temperature for the operation of churning. This I accomplish by forming a vertical tube in the center of the churn-body to hold hot or cold water, as may be required, and shaping, arranging, and working the dashers to make room for the tube described without interference with efficient operation.

In the accompanying drawings, wherein like letters refer to like parts, Figure 1 is a top plan of the churn-body, showing the forms, combination, and relative arrangement of the churn-body, water-tube, and dash ers; Fig. 2, an oblique front perspective of the operating mechanism with the necessary frame-work, the churn-body being removed to show the dashers and staffs more plainly; Flg. 3, a small detached view of some of the details, and Fig. 4 a separate view of operating parts not sufficiently shown in Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is a vertical section of the churnbody through the center, showing the watertube.

A is acircular churn-body, having a round vertical tube, 13, formed in its center and reaching from the bottom nearly to the top of the body. This tube is open at the upper end for the reception of hot or cold water, according to the temperature desired, within the churn, and it is provided with a bottom, I), and an orifice, I), worked by an ordinary spigot, to discharge waste-water from the tube.

The churning is effected by four crescentshaped dashers, 0, made in pairs as to size, and arranged concentrically about the watertube and concaved on the under side, as shown in sections at C, in Fig. 3 so as to carry down air and circulateitin the body ofthe cream. These dashers are rigidly attached to staffs D, in the upper ends of which are vertical notches d, which may be suitably provided with springs to expand the sides of the notches after they have been squeezed to get the staffs fastened to the operating machinery. The staffs have other notches, d, on their sides, to form shoulders to keep them from slipping up or down in their sleeve-fastenings.

WVhen ready for working, the churn-body is placed upon skids E, which rest upon joists F, and the body is held steady by a clamp, e, and the braces f. From each standard G projec-t inwardly a pair of parallel brackets, H, provided with grooves h, and in these grooves fit two parallel sliding frames, I. These frames are moved by the levers z, pivoted at their lower ends to thecross-bars of the frames and at their upper to the cranks k, which are formed in opposite directions upon the ends of thejournal K, borne in and through the cross-bar g of the standards. By turning the crank-handles the frames 1 alternate up and down, and it is evident that the motion may be reversed as often as desired for the greateragitation of the. contents of the churn.

Sleeves L are attached to the sliding frames to receive and vertically hold the staffs D after the churn has been placed in position upon the skids.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim to be new and useful, and desire to secure by LettersiPatent, is the following:

1. The combination of a stationary churnbody having a vertical water tube in the center thereof, with vertically-actingfdashers arranged concentrically around said watertube, in the manner herein described, for the purpose of providing means for regulating the temperature of the cream to be churned, as hereinbefore set forth.

2. The combin'ationfin'a churn, of standards G, having a cross-bar, g, with the brackets H, having grooves h, the sliding frames I, having the levers 2', the journal K, having cranks k, the sleeves L, the staffs D, having notches d d, and the dashers O, in the man- I GEORGE V. HINMAN. 5 ner herein described. for the purpose of suit- I ably agitating the contents of a stationary I Witnesses:

churn-body when provided with a verticalI J. SPENOE,

In testimony whereof I affix my signature 1a in presence of two witnesses.

water-tube in the center thereof, as hereinbe- JOHN ROGERS. fore set forth. 

